The Shallows : A month on the World Wide Web

Whilst I can’t say I’m a fan of that video, it does raise a very interesting question. How has the constant availability of endlessly consumable content affected how I spend my time at the computer, and my spare time for that matter?

The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember is definitely a book destined for my reading list, and although I cannot spare the time to read it just yet, with exams approaching, I have decided to conduct an experiment changing the way I use the internet.

I’ve installed a new browser, I’m not looking at twitter, not watching YouTube videos, and I’m certainly not going on cheezburger. For a month.

Gaming for Cheapos – Ghost Recon Online

This summer I’m attempting to play mostly Free to Play (F2P) video games. These articles will be my impressions, opinions and experience on the matter. And of course, as the best judge of a F2P game, I tell you if I was happy enough with the game to pay for premium content.

Second game is Ghost Recon online, it’s just started open beta, so this is my first impressions.

Gaming for Cheapos – Blacklight Retribution

This summer I’m attempting to play mostly Free to Play (F2P) video games. These articles will be my impressions, opinions and experience on the matter. And of course, as the best judge of a F2P game, I tell you if I was happy enough with the game to pay for premium content.

First up is Blacklight Retribution.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, You’re a lying bastard. (The importance of computers in computing)

Were I a being with the capability of emotion, I’d be quite angry right now. Alas, Fortunately I am not capable of such frivolities, so I shall just have to be completely and empirically correct instead, Shan’t I?

Edsger Dijkstra, on a regular day, was a Highly influential and super awesome computer scientist who did prolific work in mathematics and computing. On these regular days, Dijkstra is a rightful hero to me. However, amongst his many awesome quotes, I feel I must address a certain one:

Bad ideas for a Presentation

In College – The UK Non-University College – I’ve recently been asked to deliver a group presentation to my tutor group. For character building or something; most important for somebody studying computing.

Anywho, whilst my team are probably racking their mind over what they can actually do a presentation, I’m working furiously on ideas for presentations that would be funny/unique but ultimately stupid. Here’s what I have so far:

A confession

I concur; A public blog may not be the normal choice of confessional location, but I feel that this problem I will not fix this problem if the confession is merely muttered to myself, or told to god; which is the same thing, to me at least. So here it goes:

I’m not a very consistent blogger

Passing thoughts on the Wii U

The big console news at E3 This year was of course the Wii U

Watching the unveiling, It seemed the crowd was somewhat reluctant to applaud at first, though admittedly not many people would congratulate an assortment of words from a very young child’s vocabulary as the chosen name for a console. But fine, I imagine we’re all able to look beyond Nintendo’s Rather Accomplished “Terrible Name Department”

The Developer response to the announcement of the Wii U was indeed spectacular, and if I were here to represent my Nintendo-hating bias, would accuse them of pumping concentrated oxygen into the convention rooms, to explain the almost mechanical giddiness of the developers.